The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1887-03-24
Our Ticket for the Spring
Election:
.N.dTURAL G.aS, YES.
Rev. Thomas Sermon.

Last Sunday, Rev...Thomas, pas
tor of the n. L. Church in this city
preached a sermon that has occa'
sioned much comment and that tn
Eve thousand readers of the Hockini
SESTINKL might know just wha
was said, and settle all disputes re
garding the exact language used b.
the Rev. gentleman. q representa-
tive of this paper was sent to his res
i6ence. and w.s furnished at GU
REQUEST, an extract Of that part o
the sermon calling out the criti
cisms. 1t is this extract of the ser
mon that We present to our readers
Tits the position the minister has ia
ken. and with the words from hi
own hands, VIC leave them to th'
consideration cf our readers:
EXTRACT FROM A SERMON PREACH
ED IN THE NJ. E CHURCH OF 10
GAN, O., BY REV. D. C. THOMAS
SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 20.
sin leaving us an example tha
We should follow HIS steps, Jesus
has furnished US the highest ant
most powerful incentive to aciion
1t is a well known fact, expressed
in familiarssaphorism ,..ihat factions
sresk louder than words. Tht
mower Of example tar exceeds tina
of rrecept. And this is a truth b,
1.-The way. tnst merits and sh.ul.i re
ceive tie earnest ard rrayeifnl at
ten.icn of parents and teachers ant
ell OILERS wh } are in any wyy, ans
TO any extent, responsible for thu
training and education of children
Every father who has the best IN
terests of his child ut heart, under
stands and appreciates the value o
ASSOCIATIONS in which the example;
set before that child arc always
good ard pure. And o! What
dreadful and distracting forebod-
ings fiji his mind, when he discov
ers-as many a father does-thai
his boy s exposed to the pernicions
Influences of bad associations.
A Young sci,not teacher "f my
Mgr.;.tarce was opco asked br the
r ,f Examiners. How DO yar
tee ,or.ls TO yonr pupila p His
reln ava. prompt, and. most excel
lent By example gentiemen."-
Ny hearers, is everywhere through
ont TIE length aud bread b "t oul
land our public schools we're sup
y.!;e.l wish teachers of this n"b'e
Christian type. shat a spleniid iu-
ture w..lii.l lie befJre oar uation.-
Lei oar boys and girls grow up un
der influences welded by such teach
ers, and we need not care what pc
litical party holds the reins of gov
crnment.
Pardon the digression; but ]
wish to say jlst here, that if men
who have any regard for the future
we'll being Of their boys and girls
will do their duty. duty they owe
to themselves, their children. their
country and their God, they will
see to it that no man or woman OF
questionable moral character shall
ever be inirusted with the response
Bile position of teacher in our public
schools. Next to the parents, there
is no person whose influence owe;
the youthful mind is SO great and 80
far reaching as that of the man OF
woman to whom is entrusted tho in
tellectue! culture ard the moral
training of our children.
1t is far more natural and there
fore easy for.us, especially in chill d
hood, when the mind Is most i'm
pressibIe. and when character is in
its formative period, to do as 9th
ers do, than as they say. When Je-
sus said TO HIS disciples, "the
scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses
sest ; whatsoever therefore they
bid you observe, that observe and
do; but do not ye alter their works
for they say ami do not" He i'm.
posed upon them very severe task.
''Llke priest like people" has been
the history of the world.
l am not surprised that tho Ro-
man Catholic Church is an enemy
to the public school system of this
country / am surprised that de-
vout Catholics are content to send
their children to such schools; and
/ am still more surprised that any
Christian community should toler-
ate the presence of drunken and
profane men Hpon their School
Board, and the creatures of such
men in its corps of teachers.
In a town. the majority of whose
citizens profess respect for, if not
faith in. the Christian religion, it
ought to be morally impossible for
any person of bad or Questionable
moral character to occupy an official
relation to our public schools. Our
children can better afford to grow
up in ignorance, than se,ure edu-
cation at the expense of sonnd NOR
al principles. But thank God, it is
not necessary that they should do
either. Place good men on your
School Boards, men in whose official
care you will bo neither ashamed
nor afraid to place your children.
Now if to say these things is to
make enemies, SO be it. | feel that
God and all good men will "lore me
for the enemies [ make"
Miss Emma Gaze, an attend
ent at the Central Lunatic Asy-
- Co1rn,h,,e n ,ttondod fba